Verb (used with object) : The trophy was bestowed upon the winner. ,Time spent in study is time well bestowed.    From Dictionary.com. 

And to think Earl Warren and Thurgood Marshall have departed without a Hannity bestowment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannity's New TV Show Bestows A Weekly "Enemy Of The State" Award] Reference

It will be easy to devote the accessories, when the principal bestowment has been rendered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference

The occasion was the bestowment upon Der Karl of its highest honor, the Charles Edison Memorial Award.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROVE COMES OUT] Reference

This comprehends deliverance from merited sufferings, and the bestowment of happiness which is the contrast of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference

The honor of thy great name is concerned -- it unites with our necessities in requiting the bestowment of the mercies which we ask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference

They were ostentatious in their religious worship, praying in the corners of the streets, and seeking publicity in the bestowment of alms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference

In three particulars is benevolence superior to almsgiving: -- Almsgiving is only the bestowment of money, but benevolence can be exercised by personal service as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

The outer methods of His bestowment vary: sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference

God's bestowment of Himself on every heart that wills to possess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

But there will be no waste by the bestowment of what we cannot take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark] Reference

The abundance of that bestowment is expressed by that word, 'poured.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

For the Muses, however often and earnestly invoked, are never lavish in the bestowment of their favors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

Always and necessarily the capacity or organ of reception precedes and determines the bestowment of blessings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

It needed no detective instinct to see that the fortune of Joseph Crawford and its bestowment were matters of vital interest to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Bag] Reference

He had nothing of that choice prudence which seems to have been the guide of others, of our family in the bestowment of their affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference

If you will trust yourselves to Him you will have that eternal life, which is not wages, but a gift; which is not reward, but a free bestowment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

It is not a case of retribution, meaning thereby the arbitrary bestowment of a certain fixed gift in response to certain virtues, but it is a case of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

However, according to the Defence Minister's order, the proposals for military decorations must include appropriate justification of their bestowment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prague Monitor] Reference

And He has given to each of us something or other which, by the very terms of the gift and the purpose of the bestowment, we are bound to impart to others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

The Gospel is the gift of pardon for holiness, and its inmost and most characteristic bestowment is the bestowment of a new power for obedience and service.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

Farther, this one great gift draws all other gifts after it, because the purpose of the greater gift cannot be attained without the bestowment of the lesser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

The audience was a large and brilliant one, composed of members of both races, and was quite demonstrative in the bestowment of applause and in floral offerings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

Indeed, Nature's generous bestowment of talents, or even of genius, is of but little value when the favored one does not assiduously labor to cultivate and develop the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music and Some Highly Musical People] Reference

"The power to laugh, to cease work and begin to frolic and make merry in forgetfulness of all the conflict of life," says Campbell Morgan, "is a divine bestowment upon man.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheerfulness as a Life Power] Reference

The subsequent remarks, however, more especially relate to the bestowment of property, and that whether of capital already possessed, or of income to be acquired by industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Devotedness] Reference

Valuable as the coöperation of this Society has been in the bestowment of funds, its moral influence in Turkey, as a visible illustration of fraternal feeling among Protestant.    From Wordnik.com.  [History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II.] Reference

Church's bounty; but in any case the gift was sweetened by the giver's hand, and the succour was the impartation of a woman's sympathy more than the bestowment of a donor's gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference